Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!ginosko!ctrsol!srcsip!orion!rogers From: rogers@SRC.Honeywell.COM (Brynn Rogers) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: shuttle escape systems Message-ID: <34577@srcsip.UUCP> Date: 12 Oct 89 05:24:53 GMT References: <538.252A3A3B@mamab.FIDONET.ORG> <2430@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1989Oct12.021826.7915@utzoo.uucp> Sender: news@src.honeywell.COM Reply-To: rogers@src.honeywell.com (Brynn Rogers) Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center Lines: 13 Who needs an escape rocket or a jettesonable crew compartment? Just have a Big parachute (or three or five) attached to the crew compartment. Then if we have 51L disaster again, the crew compartment has been separated for us, and we just throw the chute out. Granted that it may not be air or water-tight anymore, the chutes should enable astronauts (any who survived the initial explosion) to survive the water impact. About 1/4 :-). I think it could be made to work. (and not weigh too much) Brynn Rogers Honeywell S&RC rogers@src.honeywell.com home 612 874-7737